Cover; Fools and Idiots?; Contents ; List of Figures ; Series editors' foreword ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; 1: Pre-/conceptions: problems of definition and historiography; 2: From morio to fool: semantics of intellectual disability ; 3: Cold complexions and moist humors: natural science and intellectual disability ; 4: The infantile and the irrational: mind, soul and intellectual disability ; 5: Non-consenting adults: laws and intellectual disability ; 6: Fools, pets and entertainers: socio-cultural considerations of intellectual disability
7: Reconsiderations: rationality, intelligence and human status Select bibliography ; Index
Summary
Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life
Analysis
Western society
childishness
classical antiquity
classical law courts
foolish behaviour
historical semantics
human soul
idiocy
infancy
intellectual disability
legal agency
medicalised traits
medieval court fools
medieval medicine
medieval natural science
mental illness
natural philosophy
social dominance theories
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 4, 2016)
